Although they’re not fill­ing it com­pletely, work has started to fill in Rochester’s aban­doned sub­way tun­nel. The sec­tion runs from Brown and Broad Street to West Main (behind Nick Tahou’s). Broad St. is really a bridge here over an open space and time and road salt have taken a toll.

I have been lucky to have tra­versed the entire length of the tun­nel from Brown and Broad all the way to South Avenue and Court Street. My pic­tures on Flickr are here.

Scott Adams: I won­der if the most valu­able knowl­edge you can have is the knowl­edge of what you’re good at.

That’s knowl­edge I wish I had.

Oh man, you can’t ask for bet­ter com­edy mate­r­ial. Last year around this time PAETEC announced that their plan for a 30-story cor­po­rate head­quar­ters had to be scaled down to 10 or less. Now they’re admit­ting it will be even less than that. Maybe they can rent a floor or two in the Mid­town Tower once it’s renovated.

The FCC man­aged to not auc­tion off the so-called ‘D Block’ of spec­trum in the 700 MHz band, thanks to a high price, com­pli­cated rules and dubi­ous chances for the win­ner to recoup their invest­ment. But there’s still some hope for build­ing broad­band net­work for emer­gency first respon­ders, if Con­gress agrees.

Hot on the heels of the Bill Wat­ter­son inte­view, Vice inter­views Berke­ley Breathed of Bloom County, Out­land and Opus fame as a new is being published.

There are some amaz­ing pho­tographs in The U.S. National Archives’ Pho­to­stream, includ­ing such famous pho­tog­ra­phers as Ansel Adams and Mathew Brady.

It’s over, Adven­tures of the Insider Box has reached The End Pt. 2 (Insider Box #150).

Believe it or don’t, but Bill Wat­ter­son has actu­ally done an inter­view.

In the US, we kid our­selves into believ­ing we have ‘rights’, but the real­ity is we do not. For instance, ‘due process’, which doesn’t appear to cover when a ‘secu­rity’ firm accuses you of copy­right vio­la­tions.

Given the recent Supreme Court rul­ing that cor­po­ra­tions are peo­ple it’s become clear that ‘We The Peo­ple’ are no longer even nom­i­nally in charge here anymore.

Ser­vices firm EDS (now owned by HP) sued a com­pany called BSkyB but lost the case when it was dis­cov­ered that a key EDS wit­ness bought his degree on the net. To add insult to injury one of BSkyB’s lawyers obtained a sim­i­lar degree for his dog and the dog received a higher grade.